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(41,959 posts)Seriously, has a creature on this planet ever had a more appropriate visage?
Demovictory9
(32,449 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)marieo1
(1,402 posts)I love Jim Carrey's art, too.
gademocrat7
(10,654 posts)Jim Carrey is a creative genius.
bigmonkey
(1,798 posts)First line:
"Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheurigen Ungeziefer verwandelt."
It's one of my favorite sentences!
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)I got some of it but not all.
Please to translate bitte?
Ilsa
(61,694 posts)"One morning, when Gregor Samsa awoke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed into a monstrous vermin in his bed."
erronis
(15,241 posts)I think that early bi-lingual training worked well. I can still pick up new languages (mainly reading or hearing) fairly quickly. Speaking and writing intelligently are something else.
In any case, there are many translation tools on the web. For me using Chrome, I high-lit the sentence and just asked Google to look it up. Back came several translations - most common one:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/may/13/kafka-metamorphosis-translations
erronis
(15,241 posts)There are a lot more pleasant insects than the gowdy blow-fly.
I would place this particular specimen more in the Odonata which also includes dragonflies, which seems to be what Jim Carrey is portraying.
firstwife
(115 posts)are so beautiful to me. This reminds me more of a locust, a plague on our nation that did get squashed by the honorable Agent.
calimary
(81,220 posts)I love dragonflies too! They're suppose to be good luck.
BumRushDaShow
(128,844 posts)Brundlefly -
JDC
(10,125 posts)Sort of
Edit: typo. Had an i in there
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)calimary
(81,220 posts)And who knew, indeed? I certainly didn't, early on.